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Quotes About Relief

"Heirloom" is knitting code for "This pattern is so difficult that you would consider death a relief.
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
It is such a relief to be told the truth.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
It feels so good to tell the truth.
~ Foxy Brown
I'm not searching for the truth.That's too much pressure .
~ Paul Beatty
Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.
~ Ann Brashares
Truth is, it's a relief to finally put my life in the hands of someone I trust.
~ Simone Elkeles
Service is one of life's great joys. It's a privilege to be in service. It's a great relief, a gift, to be faced with a job that you know absolutely you must do for the benefit of someone else. As long as you give yourself to it. You don't need to worry about anything but doing that job well, and the satisfaction, when you do, is very beautiful.
~ Messud, Claire
People work all day and they want a release," he told the L.A. Times. "They want a way to deal with all the frustrations that build up. We try to provide that in our music.
~ Michael Azerrad
Shouldn't death be the relief from the tortures of life?
~ Michael Connelly
You know, there's a reason why people like morphine," he said.
~ Michael Crichton
She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.
~ Michael Cunningham
He's filled with a sense of childish release, the old feeling that because you are sick, all your trials and obligations have been suspended.
~ Michael Cunningham
Were you relieved, maybe just a little, when they lifted you up (you weighed almost nothing by then) and shoved you into the oven? Did it seem unanticipated but right, somehow - did it strike you as satisfying, as a fate finally realized - when they slammed the door behind you?
~ Michael Cunningham
I hadn't been anywhere, I'd performed half an act; the war only had one way of coming to take your pain away quickly.
~ Michael Herr
you get when you can't think of a word that feels as if it's right on the tip of your tongue. For most people the relief they experience upon finding it is almost physical. They sink back in their
~ Michael Lewis
I shut my eyes, turned away for a moment, and it came: a shiver of finality like the one when you decide, in your own mind, that you're going to have to tell someone who loves you that you don't want to be with them anymore. Terror, and relief; relief and terror, so intermingled that they feel like the same thought.
~ Michael Marshall Smith
In the middle of the afternoon, when the heat was at its worst, having accumulated around the concrete since early in the morning, I had ten minutes or so of respite in my tiny office. The walls there were blistering. I could scarcely breathe. But I fled there as if it had been a cool, wet, autumn day inside. I was not looking for relief from the heat so much as relief from the crowds. They licked away my being with their idiot tongues.
~ Michael McDowell
It's so ... warm and comforting. I'm relieved to be away from Earth. I just want to stay here always. There is no tension, or worries, only a sense of well-being. I'm just floating ... how beautiful
~ Michael Newton
There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work.
~ Kirsten Prout
I don't make my bed. At the end of a day of going to construction sites, the last thing I want to do is move 10 pillows off the bed.
~ Jonathan Scott
I do remember that I was very relieved that I did not have to go into a bank with them. I had, as you recall, I had already been brought into a bank before and it was better to be sitting outside.
~ Patty Hearst
But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.
~ Raekwon
The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.
~ Karen Thompson Walker